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Facebook opens new artificial intelligence lab in Paris

Facebook on Tuesday announced the opening of a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris to expand a push to make its online social network smarter and more profitable.

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[PARIS] Facebook on Tuesday announced the opening of a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris to expand a push to make its online social network smarter and more profitable.

The new Paris AI lab - the third after two it operates in the United States - has six researchers at work and will more than double that number by the end of the year, executives from the US-based company said. The recruits will come from France's top public and private technological institutions.

Since 2013, Facebook has been looking to push the envelope for artificial intelligence. It hired Yann LeCun, a renowned French professor at New York University specialised in "deep learning" algorithms, to run the initiative.

Internet rival Google is also determinedly pursuing AI. Last year it began an AI partnership with Oxford University in Britain.